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Let The Right One In – check it out below.Based on the Swedish novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist and the 2008 film from director Tomas Alfredson, the 10-episode series follows Mark (Demián Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Anika Noni Rose), whose lives were changed 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire.A synopsis reads: “Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive.”The series also stars Grace Gummer (Mr Robot), Madison Taylor Baez (Selena: The Series), Kevin Carroll (Snowfall), Ian Foreman (Merry Wish-Mas) and Jacob Buster (Colony).Andrew Hinderaker (Penny Dreadful) serves as showrunner and executive producer on the series alongside Seith Mann (Homeland, Blindspotting). Mann has also directed a number of episodes, including the pilot.Let The Right One In‘s premiere will air October 7 on Showtime in the US.

Focus Features has firmed up release plans for Conclave, the papal thriller marking filmmaker Edward Berger‘s follow-up to his 2022 Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front. An adaptation of Robert Harris’ same-name bestseller, penned by Peter Straughan, the film releases in theaters in New York and L.A. on November 1st, before expanding on the 8th.

EXCLUSIVE: Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson, now best known as the director behind beautiful, taut features like Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, wrote to Swedish screen legend Ingmar Bergman sometime in the early 2000s with an idea. Bergman’s response was characteristically colorful. 

Halloween.Hannibal Lecter, Michael Myers and Norman Bates are just some of the horror characters who have lingered across generations, whether through the staying power of their original movies or franchise reboots designed to revitalise characters for a new audience.The best horror movies might be subjective to personal taste but, through the power of review aggregate sites and audience scores, it’s possible to discern some measure of the most revered horror films in existence.Review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes has compiled a list of the 200 best horror movies based on the critics score and audience rating, alongside the number of reviews and its year of release. You can check out the top 20 for 2023 below.Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror Alien came out on top, which follows the Nostromo crew as they encounter the deadly xenomorph species.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of indie distributor Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to “The Seeding,” a new horror-thriller. It marks the feature directorial debut of Barnaby Clay and world premiered in Tribeca Midnight “The Seeding” is about a hiker who gets lost in the desert and seeks refuge with a woman who is living alone. He soon discovers that she might not be there willingly.

Ellise Shafer Lena Endre will reprise the role of Marianne in Tomas Alfredson’s TV adaptation of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman’s 2000 film “Faithless,” Variety can reveal exclusively. Filming has officially commenced on the Miso Film production, in which Endre will star as Older Marianne alongside Jesper Christensen (“James Bond” franchise, “Exit”) as Older David.

Netflix fans have been left confused after a “flop” thriller has become the streamer’s most-watched film. Netflix has thousands of films available for viewers at the touch of a button, with countless critically acclaimed blockbusters and award-winning flicks to choose from.

Sure, Benedict Cumberbatch is an incredible actor who feels like he’s been doing this line of work for more than a century already. However, he’s a normal man of 46 years and not some immortal.

Studiocanal and SunnyMarch are to soon enter production on the Beneditch Cumberbatch-starring How to Stop Time, which has been rejigged from a feature to a TV series.

Studiocanal is gearing up to shoot “How To Stop Time,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and with D.C. Moore (“Mary & George”) and Tomas Alfredson (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) on board as key creative talent. Production on the title by Studiocanal and SunnyMarch will be announced by CEO Anna Marsh on Monday at her keynote at Cannes’ MipTV trade fair.  In it, she also looks set to confirm that Studiocanal has acquired an equity stake in London-based Strong Film & Television, co-founded in late 2020 by “Broadchurch” director James Strong and Matt Tombs, a former executive at the BBC and Paramount.

War is coming in Guy Nattiv’s Golda, onscreen and off. But despite the media’s best efforts to turn the casting of British, non-Jewish actor Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir into an explosive example of cultural appropriation, both Nattiv’s direction and Mirren’s performance are low-key and careful enough to rise above the controversy. In retrospect, it does seem a little strange that no other candidate was deemed suitable, and the movie won’t do much extra business on account of Mirren’s star power, but those anticipating a tone-deaf disaster will be sorely disappointed.

EXCLUSIVE: Gary Oldman has found “great joy” in playing the Falstaffian, flatulent-sharing, British espionage operative Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, which has just launched season two. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter star confirmed he will play Harry Truman in one scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Does the world need another remake of “Let The Right One In“?  Tomas Alfredson‘s 2008 film was already an adaptation of a 2004 novel, and then the American remake “Let Me In” hit theaters in 2010. Make no mistake, it’s still a chilling story and an intriguing take on vampire lore, but is telling it again necessary?   READ MORE: The 25 Most Anticipated Horror Films Of 2022 Showtime seems to think so, but don’t worry: their upcoming series “Let The Right One In” isn’t a remake so much as a reimagining.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTomas Alfredson, the Swedish director of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Let the Right One In,” is set to direct a TV series adapted from “Faithless,” a 2000 film written by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Liv Ullman. Miso Film, a Fremantle company, is producing with Swedish broadcaster SVT.

Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Faithless’ Adapted For TV By SVT & ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Director Tomas Alfredson

Christina Bazdekis has joined United Talent Agency as an agent in the motion picture division. Based in New York, she will report to MP co-heads Jason Burns and Julien Thuan.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Legendary is behind a new incarnation of “Seance On A Wet Afternoon,” a thriller based on the 1961 novel Mark McShane that had been previously adapted into a feature film in 1964, written/directed by Bryan Forbes. Deadline reveals that British actress Rachel Weisz (“The Favourite,” “The Lobster“) has been tapped for the Myra Savage role, a psychic with real abilities assigned to help the police find a missing child, Amanda.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a project that’s likely to generate plenty of buzz globally: Studiocanal is reuniting the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated team behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to adapt spy author Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe Sequence novels into a major television series.

Various figures from Hollywood and media took to social media to pay tribute to iconic spy novelist John le Carré, who died at the age of 89 from pneumonia on Saturday night.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterStudiocanal will be launching sales at Toronto for The Jonsson Gang, the latest pic from Tinker Tailor Solider Spy filmmaker Tomas Alfredson.SF Studios is handling the project’s Swedish release, which is set for December 2020.The pic is a reboot of a successful Swedish film comedy series. Following a failed heist, a man ends up in prison.

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal will handle worldwide sales at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival on “The Jonsson Gang” from “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Let The Right One In” director Tomas Alfredson.A reboot of a successful Swedish film series, “The Jonsson Gang” follows a gang gone legit who reunite for one last heist.

Has there been a fall from grace quite as big as that of Tomas Alfredson? After making two incredible films in “Let The Right One In” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” the Swedish director followed up with the catastrophic yer very meme-able disaster “The Snowman.” Now, Alfredson is hoping to make a comeback with “Se upp för Jönssonligan,” the reboot of a popular Swedish film franchise.